When all is silent, when the gravity of the facts far exceeds our understanding and even our imagination, then the language of pain is there, willing, open, stammering, wounded, stammering.
Hence the importance of pain. From the political need to say "you hurt me" and to go through my history with you, that you are my country, from the unique, but generalized, perspective of those of us. Hence the aesthetic urgency to say, in the most basic and also in the most disengaged of languages, this hurts me. "CRG
In this special edition, the book is accompanied by another volume, Condolerse, where fifteen authors dialogue with the first text of Cristina.
"Condolerse is about a book that is, in turn, a conversation, a visit, an insistence, a sampling, a loop and a remix, and an altered alteration, we are more now: Yásnaya Elena Aguilar Gil, Marina Azahua, Amaranta Caballer...read more
